But what are wishes, compared with longings?

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

If I decide to run for office, I will release my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has always been my policy to talk to everyone.

If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.